CCTV appeal after sex assault on coach travelling from London to Derby

POLICE have released CCTV footage of a man they would like to speak to in connection with a sexual assault on a 15-year-old girl on a coach.

The incident took place on a bus travelling from London to Derby on the evening of September 3 last year.

The coach left London Victoria bus station at 8.30pm.

A man sat next to the victim and touched her thigh inappropriately over her clothes. He was confronted by other passengers and the driver before he got off the coach in Leicester.

The victim, from Long Eaton, told her mother who reported the incident to police the following day. Derbyshire police have put footage of the man on the website YouTube under the tile "Coach assault – can you help?"

The man to whom police would like to speak can be seen getting on and off the coach.

He is of Asian appearance, 30 to 35 years old, of slim build, with brown eyes and short black hair.

He was wearing a dark top and silver glasses and was carrying a black and white striped jumper with him.

Officers would like to speak to anyone who knows the man in the CCTV images or anyone who was travelling on the coach that evening.